American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan TaylorRequirements: .MP3 reader, 521 MbOverview: The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history […]
Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation and Its Eccentric Royal Family by Dylan Taylor-LehmanRequirements: .MP3 reader, 302 MBOverview: In 1967, a retired army major and self-made millionaire named Paddy Roy Bates cemented his family’s place in history when he inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand, a tiny dominion of […]
Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan TaylorRequirements: .MP3 reader, 567 MBOverview: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the […]
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan TaylorRequirements: .MP3 reader, 521 MBOverview: The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history […]